EuroBasket 1973

FIBA EuroBasket 1973
18th FIBA European Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Spain
Dates	September 27 – October 6
Teams	12 (from 34 federations)
Venues	2 Barcelona, Badalona (in 2 host cities)
Champions	Yugoslavia (1st title)
MVP	Wayne Brabender
Tournament statistics
Players Teams Points Atanas Golomeev (22.3)  Israel (90.6)
Official website
EuroBasket 1973 (archive)
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The 1973 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1973, was the eighteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.

Venues

Barcelona	Badalona
Palacio de los Deportes Capacity 8 000	Pabellón de Ausias March Capacity 5 000

Group stage

Group A – Badalona

Poland	Soviet Union	83–104
Czechoslovakia	Israel	92–89
Turkey	Romania	69–84
Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	55–57
Israel	Romania	85–80
Poland	Turkey	64–65
Soviet Union	Turkey	79–53
Czechoslovakia	Romania	70–61
Israel	Poland	98–84
Czechoslovakia	Turkey	66–64
Soviet Union	Israel	101–78
Romania	Poland	60–66
Romania	Soviet Union	84–98
Czechoslovakia	Poland	81–79
Turkey	Israel	94–93

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.	Soviet Union	5	5	0	439:353	10	+86
2.	Czechoslovakia	5	4	1	364:350	8	+14
3.	Turkey	5	2	3	345:386	4	−41
4.	Israel	5	2	3	443:451	4	−8
5.	Poland	5	1	4	376:408	2	−32
6.	Romania	5	1	4	369:388	2	−19

Group B – Barcelona

Bulgaria	France	89–70
Spain	Yugoslavia	59–65
Greece	Italy	54–59
Greece	Yugoslavia	68–84
Spain	Bulgaria	85–69
Italy	France	71–63
Greece	France	67–62
Yugoslavia	Bulgaria	76–65
Italy	Spain	65–77
Greece	Bulgaria	72–86
France	Spain	80–85
Yugoslavia	Italy	73–71
Bulgaria	Italy	58–69
Greece	Spain	74–86
France	Yugoslavia	70–80

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	378:333	10	+45
2.	Spain	5	4	1	392:353	8	+29
3.	Italy	5	3	2	335:325	6	+10
4.	Bulgaria	5	2	3	367:372	4	−5
5.	Greece	5	1	4	335:377	2	−42
6.	France	5	0	5	345:392	0	−47

Knockout stage

Places 9 – 12

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
Greece	Romania	78–89
Poland	France	62–67

Places 5 – 8

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
Turkey	Bulgaria	67–76
Italy	Israel	94–73

Places 1 – 4

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	96–71
Soviet Union	Spain	76–80

Finals

Placement	Team 1	Team 2	Res.
11th place	Greece	Poland	65–64
9th place	Romania	France	72–69
7th place	Turkey	Israel	78–96
5th place	Bulgaria	Italy	71–80
3rd place	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	90–58
Final	Spain	Yugoslavia	67–78

1973 FIBA European Champions
Yugoslavia 1st title

Final rankings

1.  Yugoslavia
2.  Spain
3.  Soviet Union
4.  Czechoslovakia
5.  Italy
6.  Bulgaria
7.  Israel
8.  Turkey
9.  Romania
10.  France
11.  Greece
12.  Poland

Awards

1973 FIBA European Championship MVP: Wayne Brabender ( Spain)

All-Tournament Team[1]
Sergei Belov
Francisco Buscató
Wayne Brabender (MVP)
Krešimir Ćosić
Atanas Golomeev

Team rosters

1. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Nikola Plećaš, Zeljko Jerkov, Vinko Jelovac, Damir Solman, Rato Tvrdić, Milun Marović, Žarko Knežević, Dušan Ivković (Coach: Mirko Novosel)

2. Spain: Clifford Luyk, Wayne Brabender, Francisco "Nino" Buscato, Vicente Ramos, Rafael Rullan, Manuel Flores, Luis Miguel Santillana, Carmelo Cabrera, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Jose Luis Sagi-Vela, Miguel Angel Estrada, Enrique Margall (Coach: Antonio Díaz-Miguel)

3. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, Anatoly Myshkin, Ivan Edeshko, Zurab Sakandelidze, Sergei Kovalenko, Valeri Miloserdov, Evgeni Kovalenko, Aleksander Boloshev, Yuri Pavlov, Jaak Salumets, Nikolai Djachenko (Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)

4. Czechoslovakia: Jiří Zídek Sr., Kamil Brabenec, Zdenek Kos, Jiří Zedníček, Jan Bobrovsky, Jiri Pospisil, Petr Novicky, Jan Blažek, Josef Klima, Vojtech Petr, Jiri Balastik, Gustav Hraska (Coach: Vladimir Heger)

References